Abbot Juehui and the others almost fell into a fight, looking at the Buddha statue in horror, could it be that the Buddha appeared and spoke?

Leng Yi was not surprised, and said loudly: "Then you can get out of the mouth of the Buddha!" ”

Everyone looked up at the Buddha's mouth in amazement.

Suddenly, a small head suddenly appeared in the mouth that had been dug out into a large hole, with red blood on its face, and a pair of eyes dripping and rolling down. It was the monk Mingkong who fell to his death at the bottom of the cliff!

"Mom!" The horse-faced Mingzong was so frightened that he sat on the ground, and Mingjing was even more frightened and turned around and ran, but he tripped over the high threshold of the main hall and fell outside the door, screaming and unable to get up for a while.

The two old monks, the abbot and Mingkong, were relatively calm. But it's also shaking all over the body like sifting chaff.

Zhuo Qiaoniang was also frightened and hid behind Leng Yi.

Leng Yi seemed to have already guessed, looked up at the monk Mingkong, and said, "Since you can go up without carrying a ladder, you can also come down without a ladder." ”

Zhike monk Mingkong looked confused and said, "Where am I ...... here?" How am I here? Yes! Who put me in the belly of the Buddha? I can't be eaten by the Buddha, right? ”

Leng Yi said: "Okay, no need to pretend garlic!" How did you get in, you know very well! Leng Yi pointed to the curtain that floated obliquely past the Buddha's head, "You just grabbed this curtain and climbed up." Now, you climb down! ”

Zhike monk Mingkong shook his head: "I, I won't......"

Leng Yi said: "Do you want to know how I know that you are hiding in the belly of the Buddha statue?" ”

The monk Mingkong looked at him and did not speak.

Leng Yi said another sentence, this sentence made the monk Mingkong unable to calm down anymore, Leng Yi's words were a little twisted, what he said was: "Do you want to know, how do I know how you killed the chef Mingyuan, the fat man Mingzhi and the thin man Mingshou?" ”

This sentence came out of the mouth of a county master who could punish crimes, and it was so affirmative, Ming Kong's face immediately turned pale.

Abbot Juehui and the others were all stunned, and they didn't know why Leng Yi would say that. Mingjing heard Mingkong speak, knowing that he was a living person, so he limped back from outside the door, looking at Mingkong with a wincing.

Leng Yi said to Ming Kong: "You are very smart, but you still show your fox tail!" ――You killed the chef Mingyuan and the thin man Mingshou in front of you, and it can be said that it is almost seamless, but you should not dig up a corpse to impersonate you and then pretend to be dead. If you had known that the county had studied corpses, you probably wouldn't have done it. -- If the head falls down the cliff, it is actually relatively easy to distinguish whether it is a corpse or a living person. Because living people will involuntarily make self-protection actions, that is, touch the ground with their hands first, the degree of fracture of the arm, especially the wrist, is very serious. And corpses will not, especially those that have been frozen. His hands, which are kept backwards, are almost never broken when his arms, especially his wrists, are cushioned by his head and body. ”

Leng Yi pointed to the corner of the parked corpse in the main hall and said, "That corpse, the wrist and arm are not broken, so it should be thrown off the cliff after death and after freezing!" Other than that! A corpse that has been dead for several days, and a corpse that has been dead for just a few hours, may not seem to the average person to notice much difference, or they do not know the difference, but, in the eyes of an experienced person, the difference is as obvious as the sun and the moon. - The corpse you are looking for has been dead for at least five days, and although the cold has greatly delayed the corpse's [***], his abdomen is still beginning to appear stained with green [***] spots! Spotted, hehe, even in a hot summer, it can't appear in two or three hours, let alone a bitterly cold winter. ”

Mingkong lay in the mouth of the Big Buddha in a daze, looking at Leng Yi, as if he himself had become a statue.

Leng Yi said again: "Before seeing the corpse, I suspected that the thin man Mingshou pushed you off the cliff and killed you, and then lied that you saw a ghost, and under the fright, fell off the cliff and died. That's why I insisted on going to inspect the body right away. At that time, I was just trying to find out if there was any sign of murder, but I didn't expect that the body was not you. Since this corpse is not yours, then he is innocent. There's no need for him to find another corpse to replace you. Then, the one who is the devil can only be yourself! ――Why are you playing dead? Because you're going to want me to exclude you from the list of suspects in the murder of fat men, for dead men don't kill!" At the same time, you also need the identity of a ghost, for the thin man Ming Shou who likes to tell ghost stories, you know that in fact, he is most afraid of ghosts, scaring him to death, you don't need anything else, just let him see the corpse he personally carried back, standing in front of him alive, it is enough to scare him to death! ”

After knowing that Mingkong was a living person, and that he was the one who scared the thin man Mingshou to death, the abbot was furious, pointed at Mingkong and scolded sharply: "Mingkong! Why are you doing this? ”

Mingkong didn't speak, just glanced at him indifferently, and said to Leng Yi: "You said that I killed Mingyuan and Mingming, then the kitchen doors and windows are tied from the inside, how can I kill them?" ”

"From the chimney!" Leng Yi said: "You first enter through the main gate, after killing them, tie the doors and windows from the inside, and then climb out of the chimney, along the beams, from the ladder that was erected on the roof in advance, of course, you walk backwards, so that you can use the broom left on the beam when the ladder is erected, and sweep away your footprints on the beam." ”

Drill out of the chimney?

The abbot and the others were stunned, and the abbot asked, "But, my lord, how did he climb out of the chimney when the stove was on fire?" ”

"He often helps in the kitchen, he knows when the kitchen starts to make a fire, and when he kills, the stove must not have a fire yet, and after the killing, he puts the firewood at the mouth of the stove, and then the person goes in, and then he takes the firewood into the stove, because both of the stoves lead to the chimney, and he can go to the other one, and put the firewood in the same way, and then light the firewood from the inside. Before the fire grows, he has no time to climb out of the chimney! I thought of it when I saw a small amount of black soot on the snow next to the ladder set up on the wall. -- When you came out of the chimney, you held your head with something so that you didn't get soot in your hair, but you got soot on your body, and you covered up the soot scattered on the roof with snow, but you ignored the ladder, and there was soot that fell from your body! It's rare, but it's enough for me to judge your approach to getting in and out of the chamber. Because this soot is only possible in stoves and chimneys. ”

Raising eyebrows, Mingjing said angrily: "What a cunning guy! What a lot of effort! ”

Leng Yi said: "He is indeed very smart, the first time, he killed the chef Mingyuan and successfully deceived me." But the second time, he showed a little fox tail in order to set up the game that led him down the cliff. - The firewood! ”

"Firewood?" Mingkong smiled, a little reluctantly, "What's wrong with the firewood?" ”

"In the kitchen of your temple, there must have been only you and the cook in the firewood room to get firewood and make fires, so others generally don't know how much firewood there is in the firewood room. You buried the rest of the firewood in the thick snow under the wall, creating the illusion that you had run out of firewood, and you knew that you would be arranged to chop it with the thin man Mingmori. Unfortunately, people are not as good as heaven, and when I was checking the soot on the ladder, I felt something in the snow under my feet. I cut through the snow and saw the firewood and your clothes covered in black soot buried under the snow. It was also that small monk's robe that made me suspect you. - Actually, I should have thought it was you, because only your small stature can calmly climb out of the chimney. However, your submissive surname makes me think that you are a kind child, and I do not think of you as a murderous criminal. ”

Mingkong smiled again and said thank you softly. The voice was so soft that almost no one could hear it.